An efficient two-staged approach for generating block layouts

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 489-504

  Chen, Yi Kuang ^a   Lin, Shih Wei ^b   Chou, Shuo Yan ^b  

^a ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bay structure layout; Block layout; Facilities layout; Multidimensional scaling (MDS); Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; PLANT LAYOUT; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

MULTIDIMENSIOANL SCALING (MDS) ALGORITHMS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 0036132457     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(00)00087-3     Document Type: Article

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